一切都會逝去:fade用法解析
And all that fuzzy stuff,
those years of your life that you wasted,
that will eventually begin to fade.
----The Holiday
而那些模糊的回憶
那麼多年浪費掉的人生
終究會開始消逝
——戀愛假期
一、關於faded,你應該知道的用法有
v.
1.(使)褪色 [I,T] to become or to make sth become paler or less bright
The color fades when exposed to light.
這顏色曝光後會褪色。
2.凋謝,枯萎 [I] remove the flower heads as they fade
The flowers faded for want of water.
花兒因缺水而凋謝了。
3.(聲音等)變微弱;(光等)變暗淡;逐漸消失 [I] to disappear gradually
The lights on the church began to fade out.
教堂中的燈光逐漸消失。
二、詞義辨析:表示和fade相同詞義的還有哪些詞呢?
vanish, disappear, fade, evaporate
這些動詞均有“消失”之意。
vanish語氣強,指完全、往往是神祕而突然的消失,不留任何蛛絲馬跡。
disappear普通用詞,強調從視線或腦海中消失。這消失可能是暫時的、突然的或永久的,視上下文而定。
fade側重逐漸消失。
evaporate指像水蒸發時那樣悄然逝去,也指某人悄悄地、突然退出或離去。
三、下面我們來學習一下含有faded的常見短語
fade out
使淡出,使漸隱,使漸弱
四、學會fade的用法了嗎?做個小測試吧
Beauty will , but not goodness.
美貌會凋謝,但美德不會。